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Sarah Cain
Los Angeles Times
Former Santa Monica Museum of Art–now the ICA
LA–will open in September with show by Martin Ramirez
By Carolina A. Miranda
March 2, 2017
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Time Out
Everything you need to know about the opening
of L.A.'s newest free museum, ICA LA
By Rozette Rago
August 11, 2017
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Momus
"She Comes in Colors": A Portrait of Painter Sarah Cain
By Andrew Berardini
May 10, 2017
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Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
The Female Cool School
By Catherine Wagley
November 16, 2016
Sarah Cain, Meleko Mokgosi
Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting
Phaidon Editors
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Phaidon
Why I Paint
By Sarah Cain
October 2016
Sarah Cain, KAWS, Kenny Scharf, Alexis Smith
Holdings: Selections from MCASD's Collection
Exhibition: June 4 - September 4, 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
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Art This Week: At the San Antonio Museum of Art
Art History 201: Sarah Cain & Anna Stothart In Conversation
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Artnet News
See the Top Booths at Dallas Art Fair 2016
By Eileen Kinsella
April 15, 2016
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The Conversation: an Artist Podcast
Episode #131: LA-based artist Sarah Cain
March 18, 2016
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The Skowhegan Interview Project
#04 Sarah Cain
March 15, 2016
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art ltd.
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By Megan Abrahams
January 2016
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Burnaway
Wall to Wall: Sarah Cain at CAM Raleigh
By Kellie Bornhoft
January 13, 2016
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Art News
Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love at CAM Raleigh
October 9, 2015
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W Magazine
A Week At the Museum
By Fan Zhong
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Condé Nast Traveler
The Monumental Painting That's Breaking Boundaries in Raleigh
By Molly Elizalde
October 3, 2015
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Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love
Exhibition: October 2, 2015-January 3, 2016
CAM Raleigh
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Condé Nast Traveler
The 12 Best Events Worth Traveling for in October
By Molly Elizalde
October 1, 2015
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Off the Wall
By Janelle Zara
Fall 2015
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ArtReview
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By Andrew Beradini
September 2015
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Artforum
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As told to Paige K. Bradley
June 2015
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Los Angeles Times
Grand Flourishes of Paint
Sarah Cain at Honor Fraser
By Christopher Knight
June 20, 2015
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SARAH CAIN blue in your body, red when it hits the air
Exhibition: May 9-July 19, 2015
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla
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Juxtapoz
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Interview By Ann Friedman
May 2015
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Join LAND for the opening reception of
Sarah Cain's "hey babe take a walk on the wild side"
Music and visual presentation curated by the artist
Saturday, December 13, 2014
LAND Headquarters
5-8pm
Sarah Cain in art magazine
Sarah Cain is featured in Art Magazine's "Starter," a new series on young artists.
Sarah Cain in Outside the Lines at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Sarah Cain on MOCAtv
Benefit & Launch Party for The Mistake Room
Sarah Cain in LA Times
Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors
By Christopher Knight
June 13, 2013
Cain splashed and sprayed multiple colors across the pristine but cracked white surface in an exuberant, worldly display of abstract graffiti. The mural's swoops, squiggles, checkerboards and dribbles merge bits of Kandinsky, Klee and Pollock with vivid street tagging and the worn cast-offs employed by artist Jessica Stockholder. Two double-X lengths of string, one hot pink and the other lemon yellow, add dimension, landing somewhere between conventional signs for kisses and delicate cancellation marks.
Ephemeral, since the mural won't outlast the exhibition, "Runaway" zigs and zags between being fugitive and being out of control. By itself the painting is enough reason to see the show.
Sarah Cain at Los Angeles Nomadic Division
Painting in Place will present a wide array of work from contemporary artists that tackle painting from various perspectives, using both traditional and unconventional techniques and media in their approach to the discipline. Exploring various ways that the definition of painting is continuously evolving, the project seeks to expand the traditional parameters of painting, sculpture, and installation: blurred, deconstructed, and refigured.
May 22 - July 31, 2013
Farmers & Merchants Bank
401 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
SARAH CAIN IN THE BOSTON GLOBE
PAINT THINGS is off the wall
by Cate McQuaid
There's a natural progression from Stockholder to younger artists such as Sarah Cain, whose terrific "killing me softly" installation careens over walls, around a corner, and onto the floor, swallowing canvases whole with razzle-dazzle wall paintings, looping chains, and neon string.
February 07, 2013
Sarah Cain in Artforum
Sarah Cain: Honor Fraser
By Suzanne Hudson
January 2013
The main event of "Freedom is a Prime Number," Sarah Cain's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, was a room-scale installation titled so there, it's air (all works 2012). While the piece involved an enveloping spread of paint and canvases (not necessarily conjoined) that spilled onto the floor, a twosome of dollar bills ($ thirty five and $ forty three) flanking the gallery's entryway offered viewers a key for reading what lay beyond. Cain's riotous additions of color and shimmering planes covered the cash so totally that only the minutest sections were left bare. These details matter.
January 2013
Sarah Cain at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Sarah Cain at L&M Arts, Los Angeles
For the Martian Chronicles, pays homage to the late writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), who in the 1940's lived in a home located on the current L&M Arts property. Here, in what was then a small white clapboard house, Bradbury wrote much of what would become his celebrated book, The Martian Chronicles. Published by Doubleday in 1950, Bradbury's epochal Red Planet colonization tale begins in the year 1999 and moves chapter-by-chapter, expedition-by-expedition, into the future. Fleeing a troubled and ultimately atomically devastated Earth, the humans arrive first in small numbers and then in droves. A dark, bloody and mystical saga of manifest destiny, The Martian Chronicles depicts the planet as a barren desert of death and glory, androids and telepathy, crystal pillars and fossil seas, where phantom spirits haunt ancient cities.
November 8, 2012 - January 5, 2012
L&M Arts, Los Angeles
660 South Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291
Sarah Cain in Huffington Post Top Twelve Must See Painting Shows
Twelve Must-See Painting Shows: September 2012
By Steven Zevitas
September 10, 2012
It is September and the art world has come back to life. Commercial galleries around the country are busy putting final touches on soon to open exhibitions. Not surprisingly, many are opening their seasons with shows by significant artists.
Sarah Cain in Artslant
Abandon Everything Again
By Jared Baxter
September 30, 2012
True to her Biblical namesakes, Sarah Cain arrives at painting through its betrayal, humbling the seriousness of the medium and its supports and laughing at the weight of its history, in order to imbue it with the aliveness of a language.
September 30, 2012
Sarah Cain in W Magazine
Don't Miss: Sarah Cain
By Michael Slenske
September 28, 2012
Though Cain has pushed against the boundaries of what painting can be from her days as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute and at Berkeley, she's just unveiled her most commercial show to date, freedom is a prime number, at Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles. The new work is comprised of 14 large scale canvases with titles like "Mister" (a graffiti-meets-sticks-and-pink bows grid) or "Carnival Cruise," her favorite, which is focused around a $300 bead display she bought and applied intact from a local craft store—the title is a riff off a line from Robert Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and it takes her concept of "starting out with a mistake" to the extremes because, as she says, "fuck-ups are always more interesting."
September 28, 2012
Sarah Cain in Flash Art
Sarah Cain
By Patrick Steffen
September 6, 2012
Patrick Steffen: You are currently preparing an exhibition at Honor Fraser Gallery, opening on the 8th of September 2012. Let's start with the title, freedom is a prime number...
Sarah Cain: I gather the words around my work like materials, they will come to me out of daily life and then if I'm interested I'll push it further. I lifted this sentence from the novel The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. It captures the essence of great art and also speaks to how crucial it is to stay loyal to an undividable truth or freedom, to never compromise the work.
September 6, 2012
Sarah Cain monograph release July 11
Sarah Cain in Modern Painters
Coloring Outside the Lines: A Painter Goes Beyond the Canvas
By Yasmine Mohseni
June, 2012
"She approaches the architecture of a canvas in much the same manner she does an exhibition space, deconstructing and manipulating it in unexpected ways. She began pulling back pieces of canvas to find the structure within them, and they too became part of the work. It was these deconstructed canvases that launched Cain's transition from working directly on the wall to working primarily on canvas."
June, 2012
Sarah Cain in Bold Tendencies 6
Sarah Cain and Brenna Youngblood in Made in L.A. 2012
Sarah Cain Talks with George Herms about Two Schools of Cool at OCMA
Join Two Schools of Cool artists George Herms and Sarah Cain in the museum pavilion as they discuss their collaborative installation Korral. Sarah Cain and George Herms have assembled an installation that forms a bridge between their practices, language, and abstraction.
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
January 14 at 2:00 PM
Free with museum admission
Sarah Cain in New American Paintings
Spotlight: Sarah Cain
By Evan J. Garza
Issue 97, 2012
For all the freedom that a blank canvas provides, for all the endless possibilities inherent to the application of paint, and the inestimable number of compositional and chromatic combinations intrinsic to the medium of painting, the stretcher—and, therefore, the painting itself—remains a kind of container. However infinite the creative potential might be, and no matter how vast the expanse of the picture plane, a painting is forever confined by the physical limitations of the surface on which it is created.
Sarah Cain at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sarah Cain in the Pizzuti Collection
Sarah Cain in Huff Post Arts
By Steven Zevitas
As this month's Must See list demonstrates, contemporary painters continue to find extraordinary ways to move the medium forward. Once again, my survey of more than 300 commercial galleries throughout the United States confirms that painting still dominates the programming at most galleries (more than 70% of the reviewed galleries have painting shows in November). There are many noteworthy exhibitions, but for me Nathan Hylden's extraordinary meditations on the temporal experience of the artist's studio may be my top pick. Hylden is one of a group of painters, that may be said to include R.H. Quaytman and Christopher Wool, among others, who are extending the possibilities of painting by reconciling the digital age with their chosen medium's history.
Sarah Cain at Bryan Miller Gallery
Sarah Cain in The Daily Pilot
By Imran Vittachi
October 6, 2011
Exhibit at Orange County Museum of Art hosts exhibition of new experimental works created by five intergenerational pairs of artists.
Sarah Cain in Art Info
By Alanna Martinez
October 4, 2011
You might just be able to teach an old dog new tricks, as this collaborative initiative led by OCMA proves. Los Angeles artists known for their bodies of work made in the 1960s and 1970s team up with established artists of the past decade. The final exhibition will feature five installations of the work created collectively by the pairs. The "Two Schools" artist teams are John Baldessari andShana Lutker, Llyn Foulkes and Stanya Kahn, George Hermsand Sarah Cain, Allen Ruppersberg and Amanda Ross-Ho, and Robert Williams and Ed Moses. ocma.net
Sarah Cain in T Magazine
By Steffie Nelson
September 26, 2011
For the L.A. artist Sarah Cain, space is more than just physical — it's also psychic and emotional. "I try to morph the three," says Cain, whose site-specific work dips into a playfully vivid palette that defies her contemplative nature.
Talks on Painting: Intervening in the Picture Plane
Mandrake Bar
In this panel discussion with Olivia Booth, Sarah Cain, Kim Fisher, and Rebecca Morris, moderator Corrina Peipon will lead a discussion on abstraction with a focus on the material and formal aspects of painting as subject matter. To varying degrees, the four painters included here make interventions into the picture plane in order to explore the tangible matter of painting, favoring physicality over illusion.
Sarah Cain In Art Info
By Charlie Schultz
May 10, 2011
Abstract art is surging in the City of Angels, although there is nothing characteristically L.A. about the works. "The city as a place doesn't influence my work much," says the Los Angeles-based painter Alex Olson. "It's influential in what it provides: space and time to work and a strong community of artists." That would include fellow Angeleno abstractionist Lisa Williamson, who has exhibited with Olson in Chicago and works in a neighboring studio, as well as Sarah Cain, Rebecca Morris, and Tomory Dodge. For painter Jon Pestoni, the city's benefit is less the artistic community than the isolation it affords. "Total immersion has been crucial to my work," he says. "I can go months without seeing anyone I know and still maintain a normal social relationship with the city." Multimedia artist Nathan Hylden shares Olson's appreciation for L.A.'s abundance of good cheap studio space and the time the southern California lifestyle allows him to spend in it.